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Our next stop is to Kansas City, Kansas where we will be visiting Daniel (brother) and Ricky (brother) and the rest of their family. The drive from Wichita was very quick since we had a tail wind to the car. Daniel lives in Shawnee, which is a suburb just outside of Kansas City. We will be hanging out with his family the most, his wife Renee and sons Tai and ...

When Brett sets his mind, it is impossible to get him off track. Such is the case to the end of this trip. The trip was over in his mind when we left Moab. It was time to go home. Go home is what we did for the next 20 hours. The kids, grandma, and I ate dinner and slept as Brett ...

... considered...one bag each (plus the golf clubs) which served as a nice spill over for all the bulky items that didn't make it into the regular bags......hair dryer, shoes, life jackets et al.

KC to LAX on Southwest went well. Aubs didn't sleep much so she was pretty exhausted when we got to LAX. now we just hope to get on the plane tonight! We're on standby with staff travel. More about that in the next blog.

... Saturday and then on to Chulu...Once I'm settled I'll start updating this blog.

We did find out that Chulucanas is honoring GHM's 20 years of service on Sunday morning with a big church service with the Bishop, flag raising, parade etc. Should have some great pictures and stories from this! We'll have to take a break from all of the unpacking and set up but I'm sure it will be worth it.

Keep our team in your thoughts and prayers!

... clinics and housing for recovering surgery patients as well as their family members who may have accompanied them from far away. The Hospital is within walking distance to the Centro and the CEO Betania (where we will be eating) is also within walking distance. The CEO Betania is where the Sisters of Mercy teach local women skills to break the cycle of poverty. They operate a bakery, make cloth and other textiles ...

... clothing and can launder as we go- this will be different from my usual traveling with two shoe options for each outfit :)

I've visited the Healthe Clinic numerous times so I'm vaccinated and stocked with everything for "just in case" situations from bad food to altitude sickness. Please pray for the health and safetly of our team, if we're sick we can't help those who truly need it!

Here are ...

... father!

For those of you who are “on tour” with us by virtue of these articles, you may be interested to know a little “backstage” talk about one of our orchestra members. If you have our latest CD, Come, Thou Fount of Every Blessing, you have no doubt listened to the fantastic arrangement of “Amazing Grace” and wondered how we could perform that piece on tour without the bagpipes.

Here’s how it’s done ...

... leaving our friend, the other three of us headed over to the Freiburg area. My co-traveller Marcus had two host families during his internship, and he had left his baggage (along with that of my other co-traveller) with one of the them. We went to visit both; one gave us dinner and the other drinks. That was a rather fun. Then we made the final leg of our communal journey to Stuttgart, but by the time we got there it was dark and late, so we ...

... has been going nuts at work trying to line up all his ducks to make sure things run smoothly while he is away. What more do we need to do? I mean really, I'm just exhausted doing all that, and we haven't even put gas in the car to drive up to KCI yet. Maybe vacations aren't really vacations after all - they are just invented by retail stores to force you to buy tiny tubes of paste since you can't take the normal size anymore. I haven't told the dogs we're ...

One week to go before leaving for Japan! On Sunday, October 1, I will travel to meet the other participants in the Japan Fulbright teacher program in San Francisco, CA. We will spend a couple of days there before heading on to Tokyo. On October 8, we will go to different prefectures. I will ...